the latest news and this week's other top stories more accusations of a clampdown on freedom in egypt as a popular social networking site used by the and to regime movement has shut down amid fresh and nationwide demonstrations against the islamic government. while similar scenes have been unfolding in the birthplace of the arab spring tunisia where protests against the government to ignited by the murder of a prominent opposition figure. dawns on protesters laws cia hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing all senators are shy from probing his

extensive history of drawings torture and targeted executions. devices and the top negotiated e.u. budget to resign reveling with the european parliament threatening to veto your sarah hulett and package. does russia as a black sea resort of seoul she celebrates a one year to go before the start of the most expensive winter olympics ever amid a major reshuffles among the games officials with a key organizer of quiet. it's eight am here in moscow you live with us on our g it's good to have you with us i'm to bomb let's say. it's been another restless week for egypt with the plums of

smoke and covering the country's main cities following street battles between anti-government protesters and police thousands of people on the variance of petrol bombs have been unleashing their anger against islamist president of mohamed morsi the political term rome has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube for a month the for posting a controversial anti islam film out isabel to report from the capital cairo on how the emotion has been perceived by the opposition. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the band by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam eyes ation of egypt there's been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in

the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed under misinterprets speaking to the egyptian channel justifying insects mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square what we really feel here in egypt is this will only fuel further violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey went into strive revolution when thousands are gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between i'm sick of protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups are attacking the building with molotov they're pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and alex. we have more protests on horizon with father expected violence we don't see this finishing

anytime soon. egyptian journalist and blogger why you ask and says nothing's changed since the revolution which overthrew the autocratic rule of president mubarak to yes ok what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like the mubarak method of governing and i think the way the political actor see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not climb down on freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule one of the thing we've seen as well is admins of facebook pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted and we've we're

seeing more of these kind of clampdowns either in the physical realm and now they're moving on to doing it technically through you know through you tube and various other sites we can expect more of that. another country that still looking for stability following the arab spring is a tunisia the country's a witness public theory this week following the assassination of a key opposition figure on wednesday crowds of protesters logs of these streets of the capital tunis pinning the blame for. the murder on the slum as government the demonstrators met a tough response of from riot police to attempt to soothe the tension the prime minister has pledged to form a nonpartisan government next week i had of a snap election the proposal was however rejected by the country's ruling. party international relations professor says the government will now struggle to survive . this it had been presented as the nearest thing to

a success story there had been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these decision disappointments with the failure to make life better life we got worse and the sense that there is a trajectory that takes many people away from home did it strike you one of the places where the violence in the far western is in iraq you are being presented as an islamist but it seems from reports the kurds engine do both have a time in order for to so that maybe deep resentment against what has been the biggest single party but not most or majority and i think the general feeling is that it's level simple to slipped since those elections tension about the coming elections and whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps change there. mali and rebels like caring for terror warfare while civilians are suffering and their worsening humanitarian crisis supplies like ink and most delivery routes blocked by the war we've got the story late. and of tracking

a huge down the u.k. parliament is considering a new poll that would lead to authorities pry into the private internet communications public protest public. a champion of drone strikes and barack obama's pick to head the cia john brennan face his senate confirmation hearing this week the session started hogs but it wasn't lawmakers who were the most wealthy farias from the onset given catcalls erupted from the audience and the judge ordered the protesters to be removed lawmakers then poked and prodded brennan on torture so a shell cummings and targeted execution seemingly reluctant to challenge him on his answers that's a given his performance at the senate activist and author david swanson is surprise that he was nominated in the first place individuals reached out to someone who was deemed unacceptable four years free vs speaks most of his involvement in torture

and rendition is now acceptable because he engages in a program of murder and the goodness of the murder outweighs the bad list of the torture recent polls found that well only twenty four percent of americans support killing americans with drones eighty three percent support killing nine americans with drones there is a clear bias you can do the math and see what percentage of americans are bigots were i dragged before us court charged with mass murder i could not say your honor i have a memo was drafted explaining why this is ok it's the president should not be able to do that either but that seems to be where the debate is going. a closed hearing now always john brennan in order to iron out sensitive technicalities but already speculation is. he is a wife over what direction he might take the cia but on the issue of drones as artie's vantages you can report his confirmation could only be could only broaden the horizon for america's unmanned fleet. in the shadows no more drones are

moving into the mainstream with drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by a loud enough to see and q. from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and this young man in pakistan would probably

disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited the sas nations from the us justice department suggest the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being pretty out by the white house now where you come. live you. i'd say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to of thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to

actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a pride because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force. as

we have seen the killing large armies abroad is our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to go. well drones are the only thing about the cia causing controversy at the moment still ahead for you this hour volumes of americans are forced to take lie detector tests to keep good jobs often having to on some very intimate questions. a twenty five hour marathon off talks snubs and haggling have left the e.u. with a new budget one that's been described as perfect when nobody coming in at nine hundred

sixty billion euro says the first time the block spending plan has been cut in its history the differences of opinion with visible along a geographical divide with traditionally wealthier countries from the north led by britain calling for cuts in reflection of continent wide austerity but friends and poor e.u. states are resisted with spats between opposing leaders threatening to undermine the talks and all robert oulds a chair of the group of think tank us says it only has bear that is unity within the e.u. . we have seeing the limits of integration here we have different national interests clearly colliding and there is the situation if the course national governments are having to impose austerity across europe not just in the eurozone but also in britain because of course there's just not money available but of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact

that eighteen years now the european court of order to haven't been able to sign off of the via calendar because a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful projects but of course more alarmingly it's also subject to a great deal of forth and corruption and that's why the eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. well the deal in visions a sweeping cuts to a number of the e.u. projects including integration and infrastructure but nine's of euros are reportedly still allocated for small called p.r. blitz blocks and critics on social media websites euro skeptics and nigel for rogers are from the u.k. independence party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the european parliament. they decided that they got to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to

look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's in the chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he has all the rest of the stars are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament has decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic if this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that so i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself as a person years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're

scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens are saying we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. predicted years of belt tightening and severe austerity years the irish tens of thousands of angry such as the bridges and cities across the country against cancer where there's some experts are saying all government efforts to rein in the crisis are in vain that's coming up. giant hill clocks ticking all over russia officially starting the countdown until the beginning of the soul she would to all in pigs the black sea resort through a spellbinding celebration marking one year until the games get underway r. g.'s the end reform looks at the construction already completed and how much work

is still ahead. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven pace by pace the city has been putting its a limpid dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred and furnished the shuttle's to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center

the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility caused you know what's the overall. much of an initially we were assessing the amount of the loan of the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion now it's a. one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's a lunatic committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy to a street they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the new summit games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six pennies all within

a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the jew. and the crime the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was used for a spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and in the ice hockey final in this unique subtropical like ation the slogan for thought you twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid that there was a poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road and rail early but i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am

rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially in the disconnect we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future she then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation most complete in the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. softly. the olympic spirit even reached a new yorker this week as un chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations of the organization as headquarters and just to remind the action lovers among you don't

want to miss the games tickets are already on sale and are available online. but could be a clampdown on online privacy in the u.k. that's if the government has its way a new draft bill snoopers charter as it's being dubbed a would let up for people's internet and mobile phone use it's in the name of national security but they are serious concerns that it's a step too far executive director of the open rights group jim kill authors says that if the bills introduced the government can get its hands on any information it wants to sleep is charged as a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody online and

into data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is a fight the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you need we need the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether they're in any way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals. so the right to think of these proposed laws as a serious invasion off privacy. it's completely absurd to think that there should be this new form of could beautie cations that should somehow be exempt from these sorts of measures go online to our teacher com to get both sides

of the story and to vote on what you think the consequences of this new this chapter could be. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. a massive explosion has rocked the area near the northern mali and city of some ten kilometers away from a french military base tensions in the country are on the rise so reports a suicide bombing had been prevented earlier in the early hours on friday molly and soldier was wounded in another suicide attack in the same city security is being tightened at military checkpoints to prevent new terror attacks the french army

says its military operation is mostly called looted and it's preparing to hand over to a un peacekeeping force but a full civilians on the ground the struggle is just beginning local journalists gonzalo one child reports. in this town in mali everyone is celebrating the capture of two important islamist leaders one of them is mohammed the head of the and sorrow did a group which retitle can to book two for months particularly violating the rights of women he was captured along with the. leader of the movement for unity and jihad in west africa we were are so. i was detained by the mali an army when trying to get to the city of any movement towards the north has been strictly forbidden since last weekend when six million soldiers were killed by explosives planted by rebels on roads leaving their distances in mali are so big that it is next to impossible to travel safely on the roads so now the region lacks food medicine and fuel in

this part of the region in mopti there are about seven thousand refugees alternative see routes are being tried to deliver supplies to to book to the in the share and spread them to the north from there we also saw many people come to donate blood so desperately needed in hospitals a christian community in the central region of mali has been collecting supplies for. the war has taken on a religious meaning and when that happens the first thing they to announce their hunting us those who are directly linked with religion despite the fact the war is moving away the situation remains critical a country filled with refugees and deport the health and food crisis is putting eighteen million people at risk of malnutrition gonzalo launcher mali for r t. john locke land from the paris institute of democracy and corporation believes that civilians could be suffering because of a joint power grab by the u.s.

and france. i think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular because of being a european partners and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports france in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated to have used the phrase that this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do is it where it starts to work in a continent where as i'm sure many of your your viewers know china has been establishing an economic presence now very successfully for a large number of years so there is a ground ball for africa isn't there is it just to grab the resources yes it's obvious that the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many

if not most political developments today and that's why i say that the of course the issue of hydrocarbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and may be the decisive factor. bettles rage closer to the hearts of the syrian capital still ahead rebels and government forces clash over control of a vital supply road after almost a week of fierce combat ask the opposition says it's preparing for a final assault on the scene of a shock. and abuse and neglect of the most vulnerable patients in the major u.k. hospital bear the brunt of shady came from health professionals when they needed most of the after a brain. you

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